While it’s not as pure and noble as content creation, it’s more than aggregation. Are you a curator or an aggregator? Aggregation is an amassing of content. Just like little kids who collect rocks, grabbing at every rock and pebble they can find, aggregators find any and all pieces of content that relate to their chosen subject. Much more.

While I once was a major proponent of aggregation products that pulled from many corners of the Web, the value downstream is vastly diluted, and adds to noise. Google+ , at least on day one, has absolutely no way to push content into the site from a third party network. This didn't stop Google Buzz from launching with aggregation at its core a few months later.

Aggregation. How Marketing Might Want to Aggregate, Filter, Curate, Publish and Distribute. Can you give priority to your own content within the aggregated content? How to Curate Content for an Aggregated Content Site. Then aggregate. Content aggregation drives viewers, but can it drive profits? Curation: The end of content aggregation as we know it.

Instead, successful media will become aggregators and editors of content, rather than creators. Online content aggregation is as old as the Internet itself, beginning with AOL. Examples range from Google News and Yahoo! Technology to “scrape websites and republish content (legally or not) has also been around for some time, but until recently, doing content aggregation well required either a massive investment in infrastructure (like Moreover ) or a unworkable level of manual effort. Post on Google Buzz. “Traditional media is struggling. Paper.li

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SOCIALMOUTHS.COM

OCTOBER 1, 2010

[Aggregator, Google] Aggregation or Content Hijacking

SocialMouths personal branding | social media | blog design Follow @socialmouths: Twitter Facebook RSS Home About Us What We Do Connect Aggregation or Content Hijacking Usually when other blogs post your content is a good thing, you increase your visibility, you get some extra traffic and depending on the blog, it could even be good for your search engine ranking. But wait! Awesome! Really?

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LOUIS GRAY

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

[Aggregator, Google] Google Reader Evolves, Gets Tighter With Google+

This afternoon saw the delivery of updates to Google Reader that brought the product's design in line with Google's simplified look across many properties, and added support for sharing to Google+. Users have voted on the web to share with social networks like Twitter , Facebook , LinkedIn and Google+ , and the new additions to Reader make that easier.

The Carriers’ Rebellion » Aggregators: the good ones vs. the looters September 19, 2010 - 6:58 pm | Edited by Frédéric Filloux News aggregators have grown into all shapes and forms. It is a pure aggregator — actually an aggrefilter , as coined by Dan Farber, at the time editor-in-chief of Cnet, who recommended it. Another iteration of the concept, Memeorandum , aggregates political news; for reasons I don’t quite understand yet, it doesn’t work as well as the two others.) The relationship to news aggregation needs to be reconsidered.
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'Google will soon shelve Reader and this has created a lot of panicky online noise from ardent fans. Earlier this month, rumours about Facebook’s possible Google Reader replacement erupted when mentions of RSS feeds appeared in Facebook’s code. Do you use Google Reader? Goodbye, Google Reader: 5 Alternatives to Get Your RSS Feed Fix. Facing the música: I select a Google Reader replacement. RIP Google Reader: How to Continue Subscribing to World Soccer Talk. Facebook Featured Headline Social Media Facebook Reader Google Reader News aggregatorMORE >>

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Opinion , Social Media > Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators by Tamar Weinberg on September 23, 2009 Share This is a guest post from Josh Schnell, founder of Macgasm.net and web developer. They’ve aggregated the entire Internet into what’s cool and what’s not so cool. For me, FriendFeed is the #2 driver of traffic to my Web site, behind only Google. Let’s be honest for a second here.
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ABOUT ARCHIVES CONTACT SUBSCRIBE TWITTER What’s the law around aggregating news online? So much of the web is built around aggregation — gathering together interesting and useful things from around the Internet and presenting them in new ways to an audience. Kimberley Isbell of our friends the Citizen Media Law Project has assembled a terrific white paper on the current state of the law surrounding aggregation — what courts have approved, what they havent, and where the (many) grey areas still remain. What is a news aggregator? and Google News. AFP v.
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I found a cool tool to subscribe to the RSS feeds of my favorite Google Plussers with Plus Feed. So if I want to get all of Jaana Nystrom’ s plus posts in my Google Reader, I’d just put here profile number at the end of the URL in the address bar and – voila – a page is produced with a bunch of XML code. Grab the URL of that page and plug it into your Google Reader (Add a Subscription button near top left). Maybe the Alltop team can create a Google+ erati for us. Aside : The rumors and noise that Google Reader is dead surprises me.
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